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Two utterly fascinating facts about COVID
American Thinker ^ | 4 Sep, 2021 | Andrea Widburg

Posted on 09/04/2021 4:56:55 AM PDT by MtnClimber

These facts may completely reorient how you view both the virus itself and the government-leftist response to the virus.

I learned two facts today, one about COVID’s survival rate and the other about eye-opening medical information hidden within the bowels of the CDC. Both surprised me and they may surprise many of you as well. Admittedly, I had my suspicions about the survivability of COVID and have known for a long time (courtesy of my Brazilian hairstylist) that Ivermectin is a good treatment provided people receive it early enough.

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Dr. John Ioannidis, the Stanford University “Professor of Medicine (Stanford Prevention Research), of Epidemiology and Population Health and by courtesy, of Statistics and of Biomedical Data Science” was curious about actual infection fatality rates (IFRs) for COVID. Extrapolating from confirmed cases, he concluded that, around the world, more than half a billion people have probably been infected with COVID.

Using that metric, Dr. Ioannidis concluded that most locations around the world have an IFR that’s less than 0.20%. Additionally, protecting vulnerable populations and treating people with appropriate medicines may further reduce mortality rates.

However, as we’ve also learned, COVID does not attack all people equally. When Democrat governors, beginning with Cuomo, decimated their elderly by warehousing COVID-infected people in old-age homes, we saw that the elderly are the single largest vulnerable population. Dr. Ioannidis, therefore, decided to look at age-related survival rates and he came up with survival numbers that, if more widely known, would bring this mad panic to an end.

At PJMedia, there’s a neat little chart summarizing the bottom-line survivability numbers, along with a more detailed discussion of Dr. Ioannidis’s conclusions:


(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: communism; covid; covid19; covid19truth
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To: monkeypants

That, and kids bikes. I’m sure there are some stats on those, too.


21 posted on 09/04/2021 6:05:19 AM PDT by Disambiguator
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To: PrincessB

The problem with exercise is that it takes discipline to maintain the schedule.

I have the schedule but have neglected it for the last two weeks.

Bad on me


22 posted on 09/04/2021 6:07:10 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12) Like BLM, Joe Biden is a Domestic Enemy )
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To: MtnClimber

Bookmark


23 posted on 09/04/2021 6:09:44 AM PDT by GonzoII ("If the new crime be, to believe in God, let us all be criminals" -Sheen )
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To: MtnClimber

united states post office employees are exempt from vaccine requirements...

just imagine how much mail they handle, how many mailboxes they touch, and how many people they deal with 6 days a week...


24 posted on 09/04/2021 6:15:37 AM PDT by heavy metal (smiling improves your face value as well as making people wonder what the hell you're up to... 😁)
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To: Renfrew

You just got a big fat F in statistics 101. LOL

Try several hundred fatalities in the under-18 category


25 posted on 09/04/2021 6:16:35 AM PDT by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s.....you weren't really there..)
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To: Renfrew

Welcome FR.....azztroll.


26 posted on 09/04/2021 6:18:45 AM PDT by nesnah (Infringe - act so as to limit or undermine [something]; encroach onre)
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To: MtnClimber

Didn’t we know all this in the summer of 2020?


27 posted on 09/04/2021 6:20:39 AM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn't become your biography, what good is it?)
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To: MtnClimber

“And we need communism and tyranny for this?”

You haven’t figured it out yet? We have both, it’s called LIBERALISM and it resides in the Democrat Party (regardless of the claims of some people here).


28 posted on 09/04/2021 6:27:32 AM PDT by BobL (I shop at Walmart and eat at McDonald's, I just don't tell anyone, like most here.)
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To: Doofer

It’s criminal that our policies don’t match the known facts. This is NOT an ‘emergency’. The virus exists. It hurts the old with other health problems - add it to the list of diseases that do the same. That’s all it is and it’s been used as an extreme excuse to strip people of their liberties and impose illegal & tyrannical ‘orders’.

...so of course there can be no ‘treatments’ other than big pharma ‘vaccines’.


29 posted on 09/04/2021 6:28:02 AM PDT by fuzzylogic (welfare state = sharing of poor moral choices among everybody)
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To: Renfrew
There are 73 million under 18 in America. That survival rate would mean 19,000 dead children.

Only if every child in the country gets COVID. In actuality, the number of deaths of under 19, per CDC, from 1 Jan 2020 till now is 470.

Per CDC, in 2019, almost 2400 teens 14-18 were killed in traffic accidents. So why are we allowing kids to get into vehicles?

30 posted on 09/04/2021 6:39:10 AM PDT by JaguarXKE (Liberalism is a cancer on our nation.)
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To: MtnClimber

A THIRD fascinating fact...CONvid-1984 has no effect on college football fans: 70,000 of them gathered in Blacksburg, VA to watch their team ‘battle’ North Carolina (the American home of COVID)...no masks, no ‘social distancing’. After VT’s victory; the 70,000 poured into the streets, filling bars and restaurants into the wee hours with celebratory madness...once again, no masks, no social distancing. I’m SURE there will be COVID chaos in this area when this horrible super-spreader event takes hold of the local population.


31 posted on 09/04/2021 6:41:29 AM PDT by who knows what evil? (Yehovah saved more animals than people on the ark...siameserescue.org)
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To: RushCrush

The media hype is inversely proportional to the actual risk.

And exponential.


32 posted on 09/04/2021 6:43:12 AM PDT by waredbird
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To: monkeypants
You need some help with basic multiplication I think.

Your number is wrong, too. 73,000,000 x .000027 is 1,971.

33 posted on 09/04/2021 6:44:01 AM PDT by IYAS9YAS (There are two kinds of people: Those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.)
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To: HighSierra5; airborne
You got it. Once you go on a ventilator you don’t come back.

And it's 30,000 coins in their fountain.

34 posted on 09/04/2021 6:44:59 AM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: waredbird

No kidding...I never watch television or listen to radio. I was driving around yesterday and made the mistake of tuning into a local talk show on AM radio...five minutes of the propaganda spewing non-stop from this ‘conservative’ broadcast was all I could take. (click) No wonder we are a nation of CONvid-1984 zombies.


35 posted on 09/04/2021 6:47:01 AM PDT by who knows what evil? (Yehovah saved more animals than people on the ark...siameserescue.org)
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To: Renfrew
How much are we willing to do as a society to prevent 19,000 dead American children?

Apparently "papers, please" is a viable option to many; including some so called conservatives/patriots right here on FR.

36 posted on 09/04/2021 6:54:24 AM PDT by Turbo Pig ('to close with and destroy the enemy")
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To: Turbo Pig; Renfrew

Apparently “papers, please” is a viable option to many; including some so called conservatives/patriots right here on FR.


That ain’t no FReeper. Just another recent propagandist sign-up.


37 posted on 09/04/2021 6:56:46 AM PDT by nesnah (Infringe - act so as to limit or undermine [something]; encroach onre)
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To: IYAS9YAS

LOL - you are right. Before coffee my computer calculator failed me.

But the point still stands.


38 posted on 09/04/2021 6:57:53 AM PDT by monkeypants (It's a Republic, if you can keep it.)
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To: MtnClimber

well, let’s see
65-74 there’s 29 million adults as of 2018 numbers
29 million x 0.59% = 171,100 deaths expected/age group; actual 168Kish. Percentages may look small until the number of deaths is real

over 2 million people churned thru our hospitals. 670K died. That’s a local town of 14K per state. Except it’s not averaged and in Calif we lost an entire city equivalent of 67K souls (and counting, the pandemic never ends out here). We currently have 26 thousand patients in ICUs around the country. Doesn’t sound like much compared to 330 million population but the nurses and doctors would disagree and so would the bookkeepers who count the financial cost of saving some and losing others - billions of dollars a month.

https://ourworldindata.org/covid-hospitalizations#how-many-people-are-in-intensive-care-icu-due-to-covid-19-at-a-given-time


39 posted on 09/04/2021 7:00:34 AM PDT by blueplum ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017) )
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To: fuzzylogic; All

The DimWITS must keep the C-19 scam going, they are so close to getting vaccine passports. To get that “papers please” program accepted, the majority need to be vaxxed.

Then when they have the sheeple trained to show their vax paports, the DimWITS will add other criteria such as participation in protests, contributions to undesirable political movements etc

When the behavior factors are added to the sheeple’s passport, the DimWITS will be able to control where EVERYONE goes, what banks they use, where they can eat, where they work….

The Social Credit Scores that work so well for the CCP will be here in AmeriKa. It all starts with vax pasports.


40 posted on 09/04/2021 7:00:41 AM PDT by politicianslie (NO ONE CAN STOP WHAT IS COMING)
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